Description
Choose, test and move an iPhone's reported location from one clean Apple Maps interface.
Roam Control is an iPhone app for location-based development, quality assurance and responsible personal testing on a device you own and control.
It supports fixed reported locations, Walking, Driving and Cycling routes, Joystick movement, GPX import/export, favourites, history, on-device pairing and guided LocalDevVPN-compatible sessions.
Features:
• Search for places, enter coordinates or select a position on the map.
• Start and update a fixed reported location.
• Preview and simulate Apple Maps walking routes.
• Pause, resume, reverse or redirect an active walk.
• Save favourites and revisit recent locations.
• Restore the iPhone's real location when testing is finished.
• Recover from interrupted fixed or walking sessions.
• Guided LocalDevVPN setup for Wi-Fi and mobile-data use.
• Light, dark and automatic appearance.
• Dynamic Type, VoiceOver and Reduce Motion support.
Change Log
Important: Upgrading from Roam Control 0.9.4? Back up before installing 0.9.5. Roam Control 0.9.5 uses a new app identifier, so your existing 0.9.4 app data will not automatically carry across. Before installing 0.9.5, open Roam Control 0.9.4 and create a backup from Settings > Backup & Restore if you want to preserve your favourites, history and supported settings. After installing 0.9.5, choose Restore Backup during the migration flow. Pairing information is not included in backups, so this iPhone will need to be paired again. If you install 0.9.5 without creating a backup first, Roam Control cannot automatically recover those items from the old app.
Highlights
• A redesigned Roam Control - a major visual refresh across the map, controls, Settings, Connection Health, onboarding, pairing and recovery.
• Driving and Cycling - routes are no longer limited to walking, with movement behaviour tailored to each mode.
• New Joystick mode - move the simulated location freely in any direction without creating a route.
• Much smoother movement - higher-frequency location updates and smoother on-screen interpolation, plus improved map following.
• GPX import and export - bring existing routes into Roam Control or export prepared routes for use elsewhere.
• A safer move from 0.9.4 - dedicated migration and backup/restore flows for the switch to the new com.roamcontrol app identity.
• Pairing and recovery improvements - clearer preparation, better expiry handling, improved retries and stronger interrupted-session recovery.
• Miles or kilometres - route distance and speed can now follow your preferred units.
• Improved privacy transparency - redesigned Privacy Details and a clearly documented anonymous country-level install count.
• Better update handling - future releases no longer need internal build numbers in their public release names.
Full changelog
Version
0.9.5 (91)
Last Updated
October 3, 2026
